Duke locality 60 - Fish: Laventan, Colombia
collected by INGEOMINAS - Duke University 1985 - 1991

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Dipnomorpha - Lepidosirenidae
Lepidosiren paradoxa Fitzinger 1837
Rodríguez 1997
Specimen N° 183685
see common names

Geography
Country:Colombia State/province:Huila County:Villavieja
Coordinates: 3.2° North, 75.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.6° North, 72.6° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5-6
Key time interval:Laventan
Age range of interval:13.70000 - 10.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Honda Formation:Villavieja Member:Baraya
Stratigraphy comments: Unit between La Venta Red Beds and El Cardón Red Beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:INGEOMINAS - Duke University Collection dates:1985 - 1991
Metadata
Database number:186624
Authorizer:A. Cárdenas Enterer:L. Mora-Rojas
Modifier:G. Varnham
Created:2017-06-28 09:18:36 Last modified:2022-05-10 06:27:30
Access level:the public Released:2017-06-28 09:18:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

62588. J. Lundberg. 1997. Freshwater Fishes and their paleobiotic implications. In R. Kay, R. Madden, R. Cifelli, J. Flynn (eds.), Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics. The Miocene Fauna from La Venta, Colombia 67-91 [A. Cárdenas/L. Mora-Rojas/P. Holroyd]

Secondary references:

62566 G. Rodríguez. 1997. Trichodactylid Crabs. In R. Kay, R. Madden, R. Cifelli, J. Flynn (eds.), Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics. The Miocene Fauna of La Venta, Colombia 63-66 [A. Cárdenas/L. Mora-Rojas]